Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-14

low stepped up and recommended
himself as a mower of the first magni-
tude, whereupon Mr.. Osborn en-
ployed him. He was gone an hour,
lacking five minutes, and returned
with bundle of wild hay under one
arm and the scythe under the other.
"How much do owe you?7 inquired
Mr.. O. ''I'm not out here for nv
health" says the fellow" in smart,
peert style, TO convince Mr.. o. that
he was nobody's fool chicken, and
continued: "You owe me just $1O."
Mr.. Osborn took the fellow for dry
jocker, handed out $40 bill, and
waited for change, and is still patient
ly waiting, but has about given up all
hopes of getting any portion OF his
$40 bill back. The by-word in Silver
now is "the boss business for quick
money making is cutting hay" This
fellow has been dubbed "the SO hay
digger"
North BOISE is thickly timbered,
the timber being mostly black pine,
which is small around the mill site,
but larger where the saw mill will be
put up, some distance below the
quartz mill site, and on the east side
of the river, in Alturas county.
There is beautiful location for a
town along the river, or for large
city. The fiat is several miles in
length, and averages, we should think,
about two hundred yards wide. The
fiat is on this side of the stream, SO
the town, as we'll as the quartz mill,
will be in this county. The mines
are all in this county.
10 Hill, before leaving Silver, Of
fered a standing reward of a dollar
and six bits for the man who stole his
bottle of conversational fluid.
| The new road is estimated at all
the way from twenty-five to thrty-two
miles. The teamsters nearly all agree
that it is all of thirty miles. The
heavy pulls are all in coming this way
which is very fortunate, for if it wa.
reversed, it would be next to an impos
; sibility to get i'll freight.
A few log buildings have gone ul
near the mill site, and others will bt
constructed soon to take the place 0
tents.
Silver District has store, saloor
S and two restaurants. The saloon i
a run by Charley Curtis and Ed. Stan
4 ley, who hold forth in large ten
t and are doing thriving business
t They will soon put up a building. Jas
: Moriarty has the store, and Tuesda.
d took charge of the company's boarding
Il house. One of the restaurants is ru,
a by George johnson and the other b
= colored gentleman, who goes by tn
S name of George Washington. Tn
Il grub is cooked by camp fires and tn
S tables spread in the open air.
e Quite a number of men from tn
o place are in Silver, among thel
o Frank Coulson, Oliver Landrith, P;
d Moriarty, Jas. Mcmahon, Colb
d Knapp, Mike Hoolahan, VIM. Oh
r, yer, 81 Healey and George Kettle
i, There is only one lady in Silv'
"a District-Miss Banwell, who hi
a. charge of the boarding house at Il
III mine.
- The sawmill machinery was q
r there when we left, and the mill W
: to be up and running to-day. Ge
:, Stuck will be the sawyer.
. Col. Mat. Graham is the gener
er
l, Superintendent for the company, al
: he has his hands full. He is t
- right man in the right place. He al
- the company's mill builder, Mr.. N
han, are determined to have the N
=, up this fall, or early in the wint
- Notwithstanding it looks like an /
~ possibility, as winter sets in early
N that district.
;ta Morris Connor was out there W
i'm his Photographic outfit, taking vie
,,a of Silver District, and picturesc
,re scenery along the road. He show
,ad US fourteen negatives, and he
,.d had more views to take. Mr.. {
Lat nor is employed by the company,
+hs thinks of printing views to sell, VII
rbo he will put In book or album form
tito The scenery along the new roa'
10. varied, and much of it wild and
ala mantle, making it continual sou
of interest and delight to the trav'
who has never before been over
fror, tho biuh ra